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AUGUST 25. 1945 THU BULLETIN OF THE
CATHOLIC LA YMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF
GEORGIA
THIRTEEN
MARRIAGES
Former Presidents of Laymen’s Association
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CHARLESTON, S. C.—,Mr. and
Mrs. Henry'A. Ferer, of Charles
ton Heights, announce the mar
riage of their daughter, Miss Hel
en Caroline Ferer, and Ensign
Lawrence E. 'Flynn, U. S. N. R„
at St. Boniface Church, San Fran
cisco, Calif., Chaplain Brendan
Wolf, U. S. Navy, officiating. En
sign Flynn is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Aloysius Flynn of North
Charleston.
LESSARD-WATERS
BODER-SEAGO
LAURINBURG. N. C. — Miss
Dorothy Idell Seago and Cpl Wil
liam E. Roder were married on
August 10 at St. Mary’s church,
the Rev. Charles O'Connor offici
ating.
Mrs. Roder is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. John B. Seago of
Jackson Springs. Corporal Roder
is the son of Mr. and Mrs. George
Iloder, of Chicago. He is stationed
at the Laurinburg-Maxton Army
air base.
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WASHINGTON. N. C. — Miss
Pennie Rose Waters, daughter of
Mrs. Clyde Waters and the late
Mr. Waters of Williumston, and
Pvt. George Alfred Lessard, U. S.
M. C., were married on August 4
in St. Agnes Church, here, the
Rev. Edward T. Gilbert officiat
ing.
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ROCKY MOUNT, N. C. — Miss
Elsie Turner, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. W. R. Turner, and Pl'e. Ed
ward F Stussie, U. S. M. C., of St.
Louis, were married on August !)
at the Church of Our Lady of
Perpetual Help, the Very Rev.
Msgr. Peter McNerney officiating.
WE1LER-HADSELL
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SAVANNAH. Ga.—Miss Mar
jorie Ann Hadsell. daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. William Valentine Had
sell, and Capt. Lawrence John
Weiler, U. S. A. A. F.. of Larcli-
mont, N. Y., were married on Au
gust 20 at the Church of the Bless
ed Sacrament, the Rev. Thomas A.
Brennan officiating.
IRWIN-PAUZE
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CHARLESTON, S. C. — An
nouncement has been made of
the marriage of Miss Cecilia
Pauze, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
John .1. Pauze, of Lebanon, N. II.,
and Ensign John Jackson Irwin,
Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. John J.
Irwin, of Charleston, at the Sa
cred Heart Church in Lebanon,
the Rev. John J. Boyd officiating.
CADET NURSES
RECEIVE CAPS
SAVANNAH, Ga.—Nine cadet
nurses of the St. Joseph Hospital
School of Nursing received their
caps at a service held in the hospi
tal chapel on the evening of July
29, the cap awards signifying the
end of the students’ six-month pre-
clfnical training and marked their
official entry into the school of
nursing.
Maj. Alfred A. Williams, Army
chaplain at Hunter Field, gave an
inspirational talk on the ideals of
the girls’ chosen profession and of
the goals they may set for them
selves in the future.
The caps were presented by Sis
ter Mary Gloria, superintendent of
the hospital, and Sister Mary Jo
seph, director of nurses. Follow
ing the services the students were
honored at a reception given at
the nurses’ home.
Those (who received caps were
Misses Joyce Blackburn, Lillian
Edna Cope. Mary Colebrook, Mary
Lillian Edcnficld, Ann Hopkins,
Marguerite Theresa Laird and Bet
ty Parson, all of Savannah, and
Miss Gertrude Crapse, of Estill, S.
C., and Miss Etherine Wiggins, of
Lyons, Ga.
A. .1. LONG, for many years one
of the leading business men ol
Macon, was elected president oi
(he Association when it was for
mally organized in that city in
1916. Mr. Long, because «of his of
fice in the Association, became the
personal target of attacks by anti-
Catholic groups, but he never
ceased his active participation in
the work of the Association until
failing health -compelled his re
tirement several years ago.
CAPTAIN P. II. RICE. K. C. Si.
G.. succeeded Mr. Walsh as pres
ident of the Laymen's Association
in 1919. and served with distinc
tion for fourteen years, and upon
his retirement in 1993. was
elected President Emeritus. lie
was called to his eternal reward
in that year, leaving behind him
a record of service to the Church
and to his home city of Augusta
rarely found in the life of any
layman anywhere He was a pio
neer member of the Knights of
Columbus and was for a number
of years a member of the Su
preme Board of the Order. His
Holiness Pope Pius XI conferred
upon him the lionot of a Knight
Commander of the Order of St.
Gregory in 1923.
Captain Rice was one of the
group of Catholic men who went
to Savannah to place the idea of
the Catholic Laymen’s Association
before the late Bishop Benjamin
J. Kciley, and from that time un
til his death no other officer or
member of the Association was
more devoted to its work.
savannah, one of Georgia's lead
ers in the medical profession, was
elected to succeed Mr. Battcy as
president, of the Laymen’s Asso
ciation in 1939,-after having serv
ed as first vice-president. Dr
Broderick presided at the Silvet
Jubilee convention of the Associa
tion. held in Savannah five years
ago, but because of the demands
upon his time made by his prac
tice of medicine, declined re
elect ion.
Philippines. He was a member of
the Sacred Heart parish here and
a graduate of the Benedictine Mil
itary School.
COLONEL JACK .1. SPALD
ING, K. S. G., K. M., of Manta,
succeeded Mr. Long as president
of the Laymen’s Association in
1917. He was one of the founders
of the Association, and a leading
spirit in its work from the begin
ning. He served as a member of
the finance committee until his
death seven years ago. A distin
guished member of the legal pro
fession. Colonel Spalding deserv
ed to be acclaimed as one of At
lanta’*. leading citizens, and in
recognition of his services to the
Church, the Holy See honored
him with knight hood in the Or
der of SI. Gregory the Great and
also invested him as a Knight of
Malta.
ALFRED M. BATTEY, another
Augustan. succeeded Captain
llice as president of the Laymen’s
Association in 1933 and served
continuously in that office until
1939. carrying on its splendid
traditions by his able leadership.
A brother of Captain Louis Le-
Garde Battcy, one of the founders
of the Association, who gave his
ife for his country on the battle-
■ ields of France in the first World
War, Mr. Battcy is a descendant of
prominent Southern families. He
was educated at the Sacred Heart
College in Augusta and at the Sor-
bonne inn’aris. and is engaged in
the investment brokerage business
in Augusta.
Edward Davis, Savannah,
Reported as'“Missing”
by Navy Department
(Special to The Bulletin)
SAVANNAH. Ga—Mrs. Agnes
White Davis has received notice
from the Navy Department advis
ing that her only surviving son.
Signalman Second Class Thomas
Edward Davis, aged 24. was miss
ing in action in the Pacific.
The message came almost exact
ly one, month, to the hour, after
Signalman Davis made his last of
many long distance telephone calls
to his mother from the West Coast
before sailing for a sccoiuHtour of
duty aboard a battleship.
A former cler'- in the Savanna
post office, lie enlisted in Novem
ber, 1942, and had seen much ac
tion in the Pacific.
Tn addition to his mother, he
has a sister. Mrs. Joseph Rossiter,
Jr.: whose husband is now in Hie
BERNARD .1. KANE, an execu
tive of the Fulton Bag and Cotton
Mills in Atlanta, who had served
as- vice-president of the Laymen's
Association under Dr. Broderick,
was elected to succeed him as
president. Mr. Kane had been
active in the work of the Asso
ciation for many years and prov
ed a worthy successor of the il
lustrious Catholic laymen he fol
lowed in the office of president of
the Association.
Octav-e of Assumption
Designed as Feast of
Immaculate Heart of Mary
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
WASHINGTON—The octave ol
the feast of the Assumption of the
Blessed Virgin Mary, August 22,
has been t'ixeci as the permanent
dale for the universal feast of the
Immaculate Heart of Mary in a
recent decree of the Sacred Con-
greation of Rites.
When Our Lady appeared at
Fatima in 1917. it is recalled,' she
requested that devotion to hen Im
maculate Heart be made known
and practiced by all men. “It is
the will of God,’ she said, “that
this devotion be established
throughout ‘lie world.”
A feast in honor of the Immac
ulate Heart of Mary had existed
previous to the apparitions at
Fatima, but only as a particular ob
servance of the dioceses and re
ligious. Holiness Pope Pius XIJ in
stituted the feast qf the Immac
ulate Heart of Mary as a universal
one. officially promulgating' the
text of the Mass and Office to
gether with the decree in a recent
issue of the Acta Apostolicae
Scdis.
Another promise made by Our
Lady during the apparitions at
Fatima was: “The Holy Father will
consecrate Russia to me. It will
be converted, and an era of peace
will be granted to the world." The
present Pontiff, it is noted, con
secrated the entire world, mention
ing Russia especially, to the Im
maculate Heart of Mary on- Oc
tober 31, 1942.
THOMAS F. WALSH. JR., K. S.
G., of Savannah, *a leading mem
ber of the Georgia bar. was the
third president of the Laymen's
Association, succeeding Colonel
Spalding in 1918. He had been
most active in the organization of
the Association, and remained ac
tively interested in its work hav
ing held the office of treasurer
for several years previous to his
death last year. Mr. Walsh was
another of the members of the
Association who was honored
with Papal Knighthood.
THE BRONZE STAR MEDAL
has been awarded Father Stephen
J. Fitzpatrick, Army chaplain, who
served in the Northern Italy cam
paign. Father Fitzpatrick, who
holds the rank of captain, is a
priest of the Diocese of Hartford.